雅思閱讀精選：自殺式炸彈襲擊者上英國(guó)大學(xué)？

本文為大家準(zhǔn)備了雅思閱讀精選：自殺式炸彈襲擊者上英國(guó)大學(xué)。通過(guò)模擬練習(xí)題，同學(xué)們可以直觀地了解到自己的備考狀況，從而更有針對(duì)性地進(jìn)行復(fù)習(xí)。

近日，據(jù)英國(guó)媒體報(bào)道，一位居住于英國(guó)的伊斯蘭自殺式炸彈襲擊者已經(jīng)通過(guò)考試可以進(jìn)入英國(guó)的大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)，此舉引起英國(guó)社會(huì)的很大的反應(yīng)，這究竟是怎么回事呢，讓我們來(lái)看看下面的文章。

Islamic suicide bomber

Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly tried to set off acar bomb packed with gas canisters in a busyshopping street in Stockholm. The car caught fireand the bomber fled the scene bore blowinghimself up 300yd away 15 minutes later, injuringtwo bystanders.

It emerged last night that Abdulwahab, who was due to turn 29 yesterday, is a formerphysical therapy student at Bedfordshire University in Luton, and that his wife and three youngchildren still live in the town.

MI5 is now investigating possible links with extremists in Luton, whether the bomber wasradicalised at the university and claims that he was helped by an extremist group in Yemen, thebase for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

The suicide bombing follows an attempt by Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, a former student atUniversity College London, to blow himself up last Christmas on a flight to Detroit.

Abdulmutallab had trained in Yemen, but had become increasingly radical during his time inBritain. The security services and police are concerned that British university campuses havebecome breeding grounds for extremism. Neighbours told The Daily Telegraph last night thatthey had last seen Abdulwahab at the 1930s semi-detached house in Luton, Beds, two and ahalf weeks ago. The couple have two young girls and a baby son. His wife, Mona, a Swedishcitizen, is said to run a home beauty company.

Tahir Hussain, 33, a taxi driver who lives nearby, said: “I used to see him around often. Hedidn’t say much but seemed nice. I used to see him walking with his kids.

“I was shocked when I heard what happened because I never thought he could do such athing.”

Mr Hussain said that the couple had been living there for a year and that Abdulwahab usedto go to Friday prayers at the Islamic Centre in Luton.

The bomber had recently advertised on a Muslim dating site for a second wife, saying hewas looking for a “l(fā)ady 25-30 who lives in UK for marriage”. The site, Muslima.com, said he wasborn in Baghdad, Iraq, and moved to Sweden in 1992 and then to Britain in 2001 to study for adegree in physical therapy, marrying in 2004.

On his Facebook page, he included a group called Yawm al-Qiyaamah, meaning Day ofJudgment, that featured a montage of Tower Bridge in flames.

Reports from Sweden said Abdulwahab was shouting in Arabic and carrying six pipebombs,one of which exploded, along with a rucksack full of nails and explosives.

A paramedic said the bomber had no injuries to the face or body in general but looked as ifhe had been carrying something that exploded in his stomach. One witness said the bomberhad worked as a sandwich board advertiser in the Drottninggatan shopping area.

Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister, said it was “a most worrying attempt at a terroristattack”, adding that it “failed – but could have been truly catastrophic”. Theresa May, theHome Secretary, said: “The Swedish government have indicated they believe this was a terroristattack. We will be talking to them about the details of that attack.”

Abdulwahab’s father, Thamer, 61, who lives in Tran s, south of Stockholm, said his son hadbeen at the family home on Friday.

“After he woke up Saturday morning, he took his car and drove off,” he said. “He did notsay if he was going to Stockholm or elsewhere.”

An Yemeni Islamist website, Shumukh al-Islam, published a photograph of Abdulwahab indark glasses, saying: “It is our brother, mujahid Taymour Abdel Wahab, who carried out themartyrdom operation in Stockholm.”

Twelve minutes bore the bombing on Saturday, a Swedish news agency received amessage with two sound files, one in Swedish and one in Arabic, that was also sent to theSwedish Security Police. The message criticised Swedes’ silence over cartoons of the ProphetMohammed and Swedish soldiers serving in Afghanistan. Abdulwahab said: “Now your children,your daughters and your sisters will die as our brothers, our sisters and our children are dying.”

He also asked his family for forgiveness for misleading them about a trip to the MiddleEast: “I never went to the Middle East to work or to make money, I went for jihad.” He askedhis wife to kiss the children on his behalf. “Tell them Daddy loves them,” he added.